hh8节译：白色伤疤兄弟会

Each Brotherhood of the White Scars is a highly mobile task force unto itself ，endowed with the means to transport its complement of Legiones Astartes warriors to the battlefield with a speed that was the hallmark of their Legion. As such, the White Scars were known to favour the use of aerial and contragravity vehicles of all kinds, with a noted preference for smaller craft due to the lowering maintenance requirements and greater manoeuvrability of such vehicles. Their usage of massed squadrons of Scimitar, Shamshir and Falcata class jetbikes is well known and documented, but the various Brotherhoods also made use of large numbers of Land Speeders, Fire Raptor gunships and even armoured vehicles of certain patterns.

每个白色伤疤兄弟会都是一支高度机动的特遣队，他们被赋予了以第五军团标志性的速度将阿斯塔特军团战士补员们运送到战场上的方式。严格来讲，白疤军团因使用各种类型的空中和反重力载具而著称，而且对于小型载具有着著名的偏好——由于其降低的维护要求和更好的机动性。他们对于大量短弯刀型、长刀型和短剑型喷射机车中队的使用是颇为著名的，而且得到了记录，但是不同的兄弟会也会使用大量的兰德速攻艇、火焰猛禽炮艇、甚至还有特定型号的装甲载具。

Indeed, some Brotherhoods were even known to specialise in the use of mobile artillery, experts at the rapid displacement of batteries after the completion of a fire mission, and at providing close range support bombardments.

事实上，我们甚至知道某些兄弟会专攻使用移动火炮，他们擅长于在开火任务完成后将炮台快速位移和提供近程支援轰炸。

Among all of the Emperor's Legions, the White Scars were the most enthusiastic adopters of the newer Thunderhawk pattern gunships, smaller mass produced replacements for the ancient and vast Stormbird pattern dropships that had served the earliest incarnations of the Legiones Astartes since their departure from Terra itself 。These vehicles, while less powerful and imposing than the huge Stormbirds, were more easily customised by the Gan-khan of the armoury to suit the needs of the White Scars, and far more easily maintained and supplied on the long, solitary campaigns favoured by the Vth Legion. By the time of the Chondax campaign, most of the larger Brotherhoods of the Vth Legion had been assigned at least a single Thunderhawk, with some fielding enough to transport their entire complement into battle without recourse to more cumbersome landing craft.

在帝皇的所有军团当中，白疤军团是新近的雷鹰型号炮艇的最为热情的采用者——雷鹰是古老而巨大的风暴鸟空降艇的大规模生产的小型替代品，而自最早的阿斯塔特军团离开泰拉时，风暴鸟就已经服役了。虽然雷鹰不如巨大的风暴鸟那样强力和雄伟，但（掌管）军械库的甘可汗更轻易地就对它们进行了改制来适合白疤军团的需要，而且雷鹰在白疤所偏爱的长时间独立作战中维护和补给起来也要容易得多。在Chondax战役时期，第五军团的大多数较为大型的兄弟会都被分配了至少一艘雷鹰炮艇，有些兄弟会使用了足够的雷鹰炮艇来将他们的完整补员部队运送到战场上而不需要借助那些更为笨重的登录艇。

Integral as they were to the mobile style of warfare and operation favoured by the White Scars, these vehicles were the focus of many of the small rituals within the Brotherhoods. Upon their armoured flanks they bore the marks of those who lived and died as warriors of the ordu of Jaghatai, serving as the shrines for the dead and fortresses for the living. Each bore a name and history the equal of any other veteran of the Legion, and many enjoyed a fame more widespread among the Legion than the warriors who crewed them.

就像它们对白疤军团偏好的机动战争与运作风格是必要的那样，这些载具也是兄弟会中许多小型仪式的焦点。它们的侧面装甲上带有那些作为察合台大汗的傲杜战士而活着和战死的白疤们的标志，它们是逝者的圣地与生者的要塞。每架载具都承载了等同于军团中其他老兵的名称与历史，而且很多载具在军团中都享受着比那些驾驶着他们的战士们传播得更广的名声。